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The internet is not really built for reverent contemplation, but during my two weeks on Twitter, I've put up a few religious tweets:
10 Feb
Went down to the river to preach, but he knew / the Jordan must flow to the sea
18 Feb
Want to feed the hungry? Don't waste their grain on alcohol. Want to save the rainforest? Stop eating beef.
Mormons: help protect the environment by keeping the Word of Wisdom.
19 Feb
My daughter calls cemeteries "dictionaries." My grandfather agrees: he finds meaning by looking up the names of the dead. #familyhistory

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What's it all about? Many fingers in the Shuttle pie
What are we doing in space? In the wake of the Columbia disaster, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe has told America that "every piece of evidence" will be examined to determine the cause of "this horrible accident."
But even before the flags go back to full staff, NASA will be forced to shift its attention. Very shortly, O'Keefe will be summoned to Capitol Hill to answer bigger (and, in some ways, even more painful) questions than what caused the explosion that killed seven astronauts and destroyed a multi-billion-dollar piece of government equipment.
It does no disservice to the astronauts' bravery, their dedication, or their patriotism to hope that our elected officials have the guts to ask O'Keefe the tough questions: Why do we even have space shuttles? What is the goal of manned space flight? What do space shuttles do up there that cannot be done remotely from Earth or by less sophisticated unmanned rockets? Are we really going to Mars? And why the hell would we want to do that?
And the most important question of all: Why are so many experiments aboard NASA spacecraft contracted out to private, profit-making companies?
These questions were relevant long before Columbia disintegrated over Texas, but have been left unasked because of public indifference. There's a reason, I think, that shuttle takeoffs and landings are not even a blip on public radar screens anymore. Many commentators see this development as an inevitable result of space travel becoming "routine." But suppose it's something bigger. Suppose the public has lost interest in the shuttle fleets' coming and goings because the shuttles give us nothing to be interested in?
In 11 pages of coverage in Sunday's New York Times– that's 11 broadsheet pages in a paper that prides itself on attention to detail– there was not a single word devoted to what the Columbia was doing in space in the first place. The Paper of Record offered no coverage of Columbia's vital "mission"– which left the distasteful impression that the mission simply wasn't that vital.
There was, however, one article devoted to a handful of "experiments" placed aboard Columbia as part of an education program for school kids. One of the ways NASA keeps the shuttle popular in the public imagination is by letting students send all manner of earthly detritus into space– an anthill here, a New York City subway fare card with a magnetic strip there– to see what effect the zero-gravity conditions will have on it.
Because Columbia exploded, those school kids will never learn whether straphangers will lose their fare in the event that their Metrocard mysteriously slips out of their wallets and ends up in outer space. They'll never know whether spiders build their webs differently in zero-gravity. They'll never know if carpenter bees interact less socially in weightlessness.
And students at the Shoshone-Bannock High School in Fort Hall, Idaho, will never find out the results of their experiment, "More Fun with Urine"– a follow-up to their original experiment, "Fun with Urine," which sought to find out whether urine could be used for watering plants in space.
Fun with urine. A piece of elementary school propaganda– on the taxpayer dime.
Obviously, the school kids were not the only ones with knowledge to glean from Columbia. But I needed to go to the NASA website to find out what this shuttle's business was in the heavens. What I found was not convincing evidence of the space program's importance.
Genuine science experiments aboard Columbia were contained in a new SPACEHAB Research Double Module, or RDM.
SPACEHAB sounds like just another of NASA's colorful acronyms, but it's actually the name of a company– a private, profit-making company whose NASDAQ symbol is SPAB– that bills itself as "the leading provider of commercial space services."
The company's slogan is "We mean business in space." The company's goal is to turn space into just another strip mall, with itself as the landlord. (SPACEHAB stock closed at $ 0.98 on Friday, up $ .025. I don't expect the stock to trade well this week.)
"Within the next three years," according to the SPACEHAB website, the company "will launch the first commercially developed and operated module to the International Space Station, creating an opportunity for business enterprise... It is from this module that SPACEHAB will conduct the largest scale business-to-business enterprise ever attempted in human space flight."
I hope my Congressman will have the guts to ask Sean O'Keefe what that means.
But SPACEHAB is devoted to more than making a profit from private experiments in space. The company is also deeply involved in space tourism.
"Although most people will never have the opportunity to visit space, they will now be able to experience space virtually through [SPACEHAB's] orbiting multimedia studio [which] will create content and virtual reality that is focused on the excitement, insight, and unlimited horizons of space exploration."
I hope my Congressman will have the guts to ask Sean O'Keefe why NASA is involved with a company that wants to build an EPCOT center in space.
Does SPACEHAB do any good? Of course– especially if you're a SPACEHAB stockholder. The RDM that Columbia was carrying contained 59 separate experiments– 21 of which were wholly commercial in nature. That means that 36 percent of the SPACEHAB's cargo was aboard Columbia solely to make money for SPACEHAB, Inc.
In addition, the European Space Agency had 14 investigations aboard our shuttle (which means that the Europeans like us when we're flying their experiments into outer space, even if they don't like us when we're flying fighter jets over their airspace).
NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research had 23 of the shuttle's experiments, less than 40 percent. And what were these experiments? Three involved "the physics of combustion, soot production, and fire quenching processes in microgravity." I hope my Congressman has the guts to ask Sean O'Keefe how humanity is served by fire-prevention experiments that study conditions that don't exist here on Earth.
Another experiment "will use pressurized liquid xenon to mimic the behaviors of more complex fluids such as blood flowing through capillaries." Again, I hope my Congressman will ask O'Keefe why we need to go to space to "mimic" blood flowing through capillaries when there billions of miles of functioning capillaries here on Earth.
And another experiment, according to NASA, would have evaluated "the commercial usefulness of plant products grown in space." I'm sure everyone's Congressman will want to know whether NASA is trying to cut into SPACEHAB's business with its own private-public partnership.
Buried on SPACEHAB's website was a question-and-answer exchange that, until Saturday morning, was completely innocuous.
"How many missions have the SPACEHAB modules flown aboard the space shuttle fleet?" the question asked.
The answer? "As of November 2002, SPACEHAB modules have flown 17 missions aboard the space shuttle fleet, all of them successful."
We now know that that answer will have to be rewritten. And I hope my Congressman has the guts to ask Sean O'Keefe how we're going to rewrite the NASA mission statement.


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The social media experiment shows the size of the drone program.
Josh Begley set out to tweet a complete history of known U.S. drone strikes Tuesday with the goal of doing it all in ten minutes. Except there were way too many strikes to tweet, so his original plan fell apart pretty quickly.
You might recognize Begley's name. He is the guy who designed the iPhone app that mapped all the U.S. drone strikes worldwide using publicly available information. Apple removed it multiple times from the App Store this summer. So Begley set out anew to tweet the entire history of drone strikes, spanning over a decade, from an account he created especially for the project, @DroneStream:
Nov 3, 2002: In the first known US targeted assassination using a drone, a CIA Predator struck a car, killing 6 (Yemen) news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2402479.s…— Dronestream (@dronestream) December 11, 2012
That was the first one that went up this morning. Each tweet accompanies a corresponding news story reporting the strike. Begley told the Daily Beast that his project is for an NYU graduate class called Narrative Lab.


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A fundamentalist, literalist, absolutist theology cannot work in religion, and it cannot work in the area of academic freedom. And this notwithstanding the blind trust in a mythic absolute academic freedom on the part of University of Toronto officialdom.
The problem is that all such absolutisms can be put on paper but can never be practiced with acceptable results.
Here is a recent discussion in Times Higher Education of London. Constantine Sandis, a professor of philosophy, explained why academic freedom cannot be an absolute:
Suppose a history lecturer systematically maintains that the Second World War never happened or that the Crusades took place in 1986, and responds with coarse verbal abuse to anybody who dares to challenge her. It would be plain silly to suggest that her union and/or employer ought to protect her right to do so in the name of free speech.But there was a counter-argument, by Alastair Fraser, a political scientist at Cambridge:
What would happen in the case you cite of the false date (why would anyone do this?) is that the students, having a range of sources and not relying, zombie-like, on their lecturers, would laugh the guy out of town. ... In terms of the academy, we put our faith in core processes of collective reasoning, such as peer review. Most of us are susceptible to a combination of peer review, peer pressure and reason. Where we aren't, putting up with the odd nut is a price worth paying to secure the possibility of disagreement and prevent any form of endorsed, official knowledge holding sway. This is the only process by which we can proceed towards knowledge.Both Sandis and Fraser posit a hypothetical case. Fraser, to make his absolutist argument, posits that Sandis's strange professor could only be an "odd nut," quickly isolated by what would surely be, in Fraser's view, self-correcting activity on the part of his colleagues. It's easy enough to win an argument if you posit circumstances to fit your theology. But suppose, in real life, Fraser were confronted not with a single "odd nut" of a professor but rather with a sizable group of academics, all in the same department, all maintaining in their teachings and writings that the Second World War never happened, that the Crusades took place in 1986 ? And suppose further that these professors had recruited a sizable number of students, all busily producing learned theses proving either that WWII never happened and/or that the Crusades occurred in 1986 ? I would say that any such university would soon lose all credibility and would, in fact if not on paper, cease to exist as an academic institution. It would have committed the very suicide that courts have always warned would result from an absolutist view of our constitutional freedoms. It is, in fact, what is in the process of happening at the University of Toronto.
As we have seen in previous postings, the U. of T. has imprimatured at least two MA theses that maintain, and here I exaggerate only slightly, that all Jews are oppressive racists. And we have seen that these theses were not the work of single "odd nut" but rather the work of at least a preponderance of the teaching staff at the Department of Sociology and Equity in Education (SESE) at the U. of T.'s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). Apparently the U. of T. officials are embarrassed in private, but they won't let on to any discomfiture in public. In replying to critics of the SESE theses, these officials quote again and again, without further comment, the absolutist U. of T. 1992 Statement of Freedom of Speech which holds, very broadly, that there are just about no limits to freedom of expression on campus. (The only exception would be "when members of the University use speech as a direct attack that has the effect of preventing the lawful exercise of speech by members or invited guests, or interfering with the conduct of authorized University business.") There is no mention in this Statement of any possible scholarly limits on the absolute freedom of speech at the University, and that, of course, as far as this document goes, leaves the door open to the practice of voodoo scholarship. Which is what goes on at the University of Toronto.
The problem is not academic freedom at all. The problem is that any provision for academic freedom must, to be meaningful, go beyond an abstract statement of "freedom" to a specification of how a regime of freedom can operate in an academic setting. This has been done, for example, by the Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (UNESCO, 1997).
The UNESCO document speaks at some length for the rights of professors to conduct their teaching and research without hindrance or restriction; its call for freedom is at least as ringing as that of the U. of T. Statement. Nevertheless, UNESCO here is also careful to specify that academic freedom, to be academic, cannot be in violation of the canons of scholarship and science:
Considering that the right to education, teaching and research can only be fully enjoyed in an atmosphere of academic freedom and autonomy for institutions of higher education and that the open communication of findings, hypotheses and opinions lies at the very heart of higher education and provides the strongest guarantee of the accuracy and objectivity of scholarship and research ....
Higher-education teaching personnel have the right to teach without any interference, subject to accepted professional principles including professional responsibility and intellectual rigour with regard to standards and methods of teaching.A congruent statement has just recently been made by Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors; he may have had the U. of T. situation in mind:
Academic freedom gives both students and faculty the right to express their views — in speech, writing, and through electronic communication, both on and off campus — without fear of sanction, unless the manner of expression substantially impairs the rights of others or, in the case of faculty members, those views demonstrate that they are professionally ignorant, incompetent, or dishonest with regard to their discipline or fields of expertise.Statements about academic freedom, including that by the U. of T., generally include the observation that a diversity of views is desirable and conducive to the free exercise of academic work. But as we have seen, the U. of T. practices, under flag of academic freedom, have resulted in at least one SESE department being dominated by a single political dogma, to the exclusion of all other viewpoints. Not only did the academic freedom absolutism lead to voodo scholarship, it also abolished, in at least one department, the very freedom it ostensibly protects.
Finally, a word about what formal statements can and cannot do for academic freedom.
As in the related (but not identical) area of freedom of speech, there are at least two ways in which general statements of principle can work. The first is the American way, in which there is an absolutist First Amendment which is then modified by court decisions and in actual practice so as to allow for the necessary limitations that make a free society work. The second is the Canadian way, which allows in its very Charter of Rights and Freedoms for deviations from absolutist interpretation through the "notwithstanding clause" (Section 33 of the Charter). (As a matter of fact, the Canadian Charter has been held not to be applicable to universities.) The University of Toronto, surprising for a Canadian university, has gone the American way in its verbal absolutism, but without the American practical provisions for limitation.
The upshot is this: The University of Toronto has a creeping problem of voodoo scholarship that invades its precincts. Its response so far has been: no problem, no problem ! freedom of speech ! outsiders: mind your own business ! But the fact is that there is a problem. And the public, which pays for this university, has a right to be involved. The officials need to take a close look at the voodoo in its ranks and need to take steps to restore public confidence.
Like most areas of democratic governance, an authentic regime of academic freedom needs to be responsive to the complexities and nuances and grey areas of a vibrant academic culture. And it needs to respectful of the core value of academic life: the pursuit of truth.
For a thoughtful defense and analysis of academic freedom, including its complexities, see the article by Terence Karran
Also: read the important analysis of academic freedom by Arthur Gross-Schaefer: Academic Freedom; Moving Away from the Faculty-Only Paradigm
Update 9/4/11: yet another piece of anti-Israel propaganda, in the guise of an MA thesis, from the University of Toronto.


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Bryce Harrington and Kees Cook have come together to write this informative article titled 'Managing Disk Space with LVM' which explains the ins and outs creating, modifying and deleting of LVM in Linux.
The Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a mechanism for virtualizing disks. It can create "virtual" disk partitions out of one or more physical hard drives, allowing you to grow, shrink, or move those partitions from drive to drive as your needs change. It also allows you to create larger partitions than you could achieve with a single drive.
Traditional uses of LVM have included databases and company file servers, but even home users may want large partitions for music or video collections, or for storing online backups. LVM and RAID 1 can also be convenient ways to gain redundancy without sacrificing flexibility.
This article looks first at a basic file server, then explains some variations on that theme, including adding redundancy with RAID 1 and some things to consider when using LVM for desktop machines.
LVM Installation
An operational LVM system includes both a kernel filesystem component and userspace utilities. To turn on the kernel component, set up the kernel options as follows:
Device Drivers --> Multi-device support (RAID and LVM) [*] Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM) < > RAID support <*> Device mapper support < > Crypt target support (NEW)
You can usually install the LVM user tools through your Linux distro's packaging system. In Gentoo, the LVM user tools are part of the
lvm2 package. Note that you may see tools for LVM-1 as well (perhaps named
lvm-user). It doesn't hurt to have both installed, but make sure you have the LVM-2 tools.
LVM Basics
To use LVM, you must understand several elements. First are the regular physical hard drives attached to the computer. The disk space on these devices is chopped up into partitions. Finally, a filesystem is written directly to a partition. By comparison, in LVM, Volume Groups (VGs) are split up into logical volumes (LVs), where the filesystems ultimately reside (Figure 1).
Each VG is made up of a pool of Physical Volumes (PVs). You can extend (or reduce) the size of a Volume Group by adding or removing as many PVs as you wish, provided there are enough PVs remaining to store the contents of all the allocated LVs. As long as there is available space in the VG, you can also grow and shrink the size of your LVs at will (although most filesystems don't like to shrink).
Figure 1. An example LVM layout (Click to view larger image)
Example: A Basic File Server
A simple, practical example of LVM use is a traditional file server, which provides centralized backup, storage space for media files, and shared file space for several family members' computers. Flexibility is a key requirement; who knows what storage challenges next year's technology will bring?
For example, suppose your requirements are:
400G - Large media file storage 50G - Online backups of two laptops and three desktops (10G each) 10G - Shared files
Ultimately, these requirements may increase a great deal over the next year or two, but exactly how much and which partition will grow the most are still unknown.
Disk Hardware
Traditionally, a file server uses SCSI disks, but today SATA disks offer an attractive combination of speed and low cost. At the time of this writing, 250 GB SATA drives are commonly available for around $100; for a terabyte, the cost is around $400.
SATA drives are not named like ATA drives (hda, hdb), but like SCSI (sda, sdb). Once the system has booted with SATA support, it has four physical devices to work with:
/dev/sda 251.0 GB/dev/sdb 251.0 GB/dev/sdc 251.0 GB/dev/sdd 251.0 GB
Next, partition these for use with LVM. You can do this with
fdisk by specifying the "Linux LVM" partition type 8e. The finished product looks like this:
# fdisk -l /dev/sdd Disk /dev/sdd: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylindersUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Start End Blocks Id System/dev/sdd1 1 30515 245111706 8e Linux LVM
Notice the partition type is
8e, or "Linux LVM."
Creating a Virtual Volume
Initialize each of the disks using the
pvcreate command:
# pvcreate /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
This sets up all the partitions on these drives for use under LVM, allowing creation of volume groups. To examine available PVs, use the
pvdisplay command. This system will use a single-volume group named
# vgcreate datavg /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
vgdisplay to see the newly created
datavg VG with the four drives stitched together. Now create the logical volumes within them:
# lvcreate --name medialv --size 400G# lvcreate --name backuplv --size 50G# lvcreate --name sharelv --size 10G
Without LVM, you might allocate all available disk space to the partitions you're creating, but with LVM, it is worthwhile to be conservative, allocating only half the available space to the current requirements. As a general rule, it's easier to grow a filesystem than to shrink it, so it's a good strategy to allocate exactly what you need today, and leave the remaining space unallocated until your needs become clearer. This method also gives you the option of creating new volumes when new needs arise (such as a separate encrypted file share for sensitive data). To examine these volumes, use the
lvdisplay command.
Now you have several nicely named logical volumes at your disposal:
/dev/datavg/backuplv (also /dev/mapper/datavg-backuplv)/dev/datavg/medialv (also /dev/mapper/datavg-medialv)/dev/datavg/sharelv (also /dev/mapper/datavg-sharelv)
Selecting Filesystems
Now that the devices are created, the next step is to put filesystems on them. However, there are many types of filesystems. How do you choose?
For typical desktop filesystems, you're probably familiar with ext2 and ext3. ext2 was the standard, reliable workhorse for Linux systems in years past. ext3 is an upgrade for ext2 that provides journaling, a mechanism to speed up filesystem checks after a crash. ext3's balance of performance, robustness, and recovery speed makes it a fine choice for general purpose use. Because ext2 and ext3 have been the defaults for such a long time, ext3 is also a good choice if you want great reliability. For storing backups, reliability is much more important than speed. The major downside to ext2/ext3 is that to grow (or shrink) the filesystem, you must first unmount it.
However, other filesystems provide advantages in certain situations, such as large file sizes, large quantities of files, or on-the-fly filesystem growth. Because LVM's primary use is for scenarios where you need extreme numbers of files, extremely large files, and/or the need to resize your filesystems, the following filesystems are well worth considering.
For large numbers of small files, ReiserFS is an excellent choice. For raw, uncached file I/O, it ranks at the top of most benchmarks, and can be as much as an order of magnitude faster than ext3. Historically, however, it has not proven as robust as ext3. It's been tested enough lately that this may no longer be a significant issue, but keep it in mind.
If you are designing a file server that will contain large files, such as video files recorded by MythTV, then delete speed could be a priority. With ext3 or ReiserFS, your deletes may take several seconds to complete as the filesystem works to mark all of the freed data blocks. If your system is recording or processing video at the same time, this delay could cause dropped frames or other glitches. JFS and XFS are better choices in this situation, although XFS has the edge due to greater reliability and better general performance.
With all these considerations in mind, format the partitions as follows:
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/datavg/backuplv# mkfs.xfs /dev/datavg/medialv# mkfs.reiserfs /dev/datavg/sharelv
Finally, to mount the file systems, first add the following lines to /etc/fstab:
/dev/datavg/backuplv /var/backup ext3 rw,noatime 0 0/dev/datavg/medialv /var/media xfs rw,noatime 0 0/dev/datavg/sharelv /var/share reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0
and then establish and activate the mount points:
# mkdir /var/media /var/backup /var/share# mount /var/media /var/backup /var/share
Now your basic file server is ready for service.
Adding Reliability With RAID
So far, this LVM example has been reasonably straightforward. However, it has one major flaw: if any of your drives fail, all of your data is at risk! Half a terabyte is not an insignificant amount to back up, so this is an extremely serious weakness in the design.
To compensate for this risk, build redundancy into the design using RAID 1. RAID, which stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, is a low-level technology for combining disks together in various ways, called RAID levels. The RAID 1 design mirrors data across two (or more) disks. In addition to doubling the reliability, RAID 1 adds performance benefits for reads because both drives have the same data, and read operations can be split between them.
Unfortunately, these benefits do not come without a critical cost: the storage size is cut in half. The good news is that half a terabyte is still enough for the present space requirements, and LVM gives the flexibility to add more or larger disks later.
With four drives, RAID 5 is another option. It restores some of the disk space but adds even more complexity. Also, it performs well with reads but poorly with writes. Because hard drives are reasonably cheap, RAID 5's benefits aren't worth the trouble for this example.
Although it would have made more sense to start with a RAID, we waited until now to introduce them so we could demonstrate how to migrate from raw disks to RAID disks without needing to unmount any of the filesystems.
In the end, this design will combine the four drives into two RAID 1 pairs: /dev/sda + /dev/sdd and /dev/sdb + /dev/sdc. The reason for this particular arrangement is that sda and sdd are the primary and secondary drives on separate controllers; this way, if a controller were to die, you could still access the two drives on the alternate controller. When the primary/secondary pairs are used, the relative access speeds are balanced so neither RAID array is slower than the other. There may also be a performance benefit to having accesses evenly distributed across both controllers.
First, pull two of the SATA drives (sdb and sdd) out of the
datavg VG:
# modprobe dm-mirror # pvmove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sda1 # pvmove /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1 # vgreduce datavg /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdd1 # pvremove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdd1
Then, change the partition type on these two drives, using filesystem type
fd (Linux raid autodetect):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System/dev/sdb1 1 30515 245111706 fd Linux raid autodetect
Now, build the RAID 1 mirrors, telling
md that the "other half" of the mirrors are missing (because they're not ready to be added to the RAID yet):
# mdadm --create /dev/md0 -a -l 1 -n 2 /dev/sdd1 missing# mdadm --create /dev/md1 -a -l 1 -n 2 /dev/sdb1 missing
Add these broken mirrors to the LVM:
# pvcreate /dev/md0 /dev/md1# vgextend datavg /dev/md0 /dev/md1
Next, migrate off of the raw disks onto the broken mirrors:
# pvmove /dev/sda1 /dev/md0 # pvmove /dev/sdc1 /dev/md1 # vgreduce datavg /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1 # pvremove /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1
Finally, change the partition types of the raw disks to
fd, and get the broken mirrors on their feet with full mirroring:
# fdisk /dev/sda1# fdisk /dev/sdc1# mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1# mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdc1
That's quite a few steps, but this full RAID 1 setup protects the LVM system without having to reinstall, copy or remount filesystems, or reboot.
Network Access of Files
A file server isn't much use if you can't get files off of it. There are many ways to serve files, but the most common and powerful is Network File System (NFS). NFS allows other *nix machines to mount the file shares for direct use. It's also pretty easy to set up on Linux.
First, make sure the file server has NFS enabled in the kernel (2.6.15 in this example):
File systems Network File Systems <*> NFS file system support [*] Provide NFSv3 client support <*> NFS server support [*] Provide NFSv3 server support
Rebuild and reinstall the kernel and then reboot the file server. If you'd like to avoid rebooting, build NFS as a module and then load it with
modprobe nfsd.
Next, start the NFS service. Your Linux distro will have an
init script to do this. For instance, on Gentoo, you'll see:
/etc/init.d/nfs start * Starting portmap ... [ ok ] * Mounting RPC pipefs ... [ ok ] * Starting NFS statd ... [ ok ] * Starting NFS daemon ... [ ok ] * Starting NFS mountd ... [ ok ]
You can double-check that NFS is running by querying
portmapper with the command
rpcinfo -p | grep nfs:
program vers proto port service100003 2 udp 2049 nfs100003 3 udp 2049 nfs100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs100003 3 tcp 2049 nfs
Next, you must specify which directories the NFS service should export. Add the following to /etc/exports:
/var/backup 192.168.0.0/24(rw,sync)/var/media 192.168.0.0/24(rw,sync)/var/share 192.168.0.0/24(rw,sync)
This lists the directories to share, the machines (or networks) to permit to mount the files, and a set of options to control how the sharing works. The options include
rw to allow read-write mounts and
sync to force synchronous behavior.
sync prevents data corruption if the server reboots in the middle of a file write, but sacrifices the performance advantages that
async would provide.
Next, export these file shares from the NFS service:
# exportfs -avexporting 192.168.0.0/24:/var/backupexporting 192.168.0.0/24:/var/mediaexporting 192.168.0.0/24:/var/share
Now, mount these file shares on each machine that will use them. Assuming the file server is named
fileserv, add the following lines to the client machines' /etc/fstab files:
# Device mountpoint fs-type options dump fsckorderfileserv:/var/backup /var/backup nfs defaults 0 0fileserv:/var/media /var/media nfs defaults 0 0fileserv:/var/share /var/share nfs defaults 0 0
Finally, create the mountpoints and mount the new shares:
# mkdir /var/backup /var/media /var/share# mount /var/backup /var/media /var/share
Now all the machines on your network have access to large, reliable, and expandable disk space!
Backup Strategies
As you rely more heavily on this new LVM-enabled disk space, you may have concerns about backing it up. Using RAID ensures against basic disk failures, but gives you no protection in the case of fire, theft, or accidental deletion of important files.
Traditionally, tape drives are used for backups of this class. This option is still viable and has several advantages, but it can be an expensive and slow solution for a system of this size. Fortunately, there other options using today's technology.
rsync is a powerful utility for copying files from one system to another, and it works well across the Internet. You could set up a backup system at a friend's house in a different city and arrange to periodically send backups there. This is easy to do with cronjob:
04 4 * * 4 rsync --delete -a /var/backup/ fileserv.myfriend.org:/backup/myself/backup \ > /var/log/crontab.backup.log 2>&1
Another approach is to attach a pair of external RAID 1 hard drives to your file server using Firewire, USB, or eSATA. Add one drive to /dev/md0 and the other to /dev/md1. Once the mirroring is complete, remove the drives and store them in a safe place offsite. Re-mirror weekly or monthly, depending on your needs.
Growth and Reallocation
Suppose that over the next year, the storage system fills up and needs to be expanded. Initially, you can begin allocating the unallocated space. For instance, to increase the amount of space available for shared files from 10GB to 15GB, run a command such as:
# lvextend -L15G /dev/datavg/sharelv
# resize_reiserfs /dev/datavg/sharelv
But over time, all the unallocated disk space will be used. One solution is to replace the four 250G drives with larger 800G ones.
In the case where you use RAID 1, migration is straightforward. Use
mdadm to mark one drive of each of the RAID 1 mirrors as failed, and then remove them:
# mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sda1# mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sda1# mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sdc1# mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sdc1
Pull out the sda and sdc hard drives and replace them with two of the new 800G drives. Split each 800G drive into a 250G partition and a 550G partition using
fdisk, and add the partitions back to md0 and md1:
# fdisk /dev/sda# fdisk /dev/sdc# mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1# mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdc1
Repeat the above process with sdd and sdb to move them to the other two new drives, then create a third and fourth RAID device, md2 and md3, using the new space:
# mdadm --create /dev/md2 -a -l 1 -n 2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdd2# mdadm --create /dev/md3 -a -l 1 -n 2 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2
Finally, add these to LVM:
# pvcreate /dev/md2 /dev/md3# vgextend datavg /dev/md2 /dev/md3
The file server now has 1.6TB of fully redundant storage.
LVM and Desktops
So far, we've talked only about LVM and RAID for secondary disk space via a standalone file server, but what if you want to use LVM to manage the space on a regular desktop system? It can work, but there are some considerations to take into account.
First, the installation and upgrade procedures for some Linux distributions don't handle RAID or LVM, which may present complications. Many of today's distros do support it, and even provide tools to assist in creating and managing them, so check this first.
Second, having the root filesystem on LVM can complicate recovery of damaged file systems. Because boot loaders don't support LVM yet, you must also have a non-LVM /boot partition (though it can be on a RAID 1 device).
Third, you need some spare unallocated disk space for the new LVM partition. If you don't have this, use
parted to shrink your existing root partition, as described in the LVM HOWTO.
For this example, assume you have your swap space and /boot partitions already set up outside of LVM on their own partitions. You can focus on moving your root filesystem onto a new LVM partition in the partition /dev/hda4. Check that the filesystem type on hda4 is LVM (type 8e).
Initialize LVM and create a new physical volume:
# vgscan# pvcreate /dev/hda4# vgcreate rootvg /dev/hda4
Now create a 5G logical volume, formatted into an xfs file system:
# lvcreate rootvg ---name rootlv -size 5G# mkfs.xfs /dev/rootvg/rootlv
Copy the files from the existing root file system to the new LVM one:
# mkdir /mnt/new_root# mount /dev/rootvg/rootlv /mnt/new_root# cp -ax /. /mnt/new_root/
Next, modify /etc/fstab to mount / on /dev/rootvg/root instead of /dev/hda3.
The trickiest part is to rebuild your
initrd to include LVM support. This tends to be distro-specific, but look for
mkinitrd or
yaird. Your
initrd image must have the LVM modules loaded or the root filesystem will not be available. To be safe, leave your original
initrd image alone and make a new one named, for example, /boot/initrd-lvm.img.
Finally, update your bootloader. Add a new section for your new root filesystem, duplicating your original boot stanza. In the new copy, change the
root from /dev/hda3 to /dev/rootvg/rootlv, and change your
initrd to the newly built one. If you use lilo, be sure to run
lilo once you've made the changes. For example, with grub, if you have:
title=Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ro single initrd /initrd.img
add a new section such as:
title=LinuxLVM root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/rootvg/root ro single initrd /initrd-lvm.img
LVM is only one of many enterprise technologies in the Linux kernel that has become available for regular users. LVM provides a great deal of flexibility with disk space, and combined with RAID 1, NFS, and a good backup strategy, you can build a bulletproof, easily managed way to store, share, and preserve any quantity of files.


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Creating a grateful family culture is a challenge in our entitled, indulgent age. Yet much research has confirmed what we intuitively know – practicing gratitude and being grateful are keys to a happier life. Therefore, it's well worth our consistent and continued effort as parents to model and teach our kids to practice gratitude. While I've researched and written about gratitude quite a bit, my family still has a long way to go to live as truly grateful people. So, as we enter this Thanksgiving week, I am once again doubling down my efforts to promote gratitude in my family. After all, if we constantly dwell on what's going wrong in our lives and in the world (and stay focused on what we don't have), we are left feeling anxious, empty, and depressed. But when we take time to count our blessings, we shift our mindsets and become happier, more grateful people.
For those of you who, like me, would like to create a more grateful family culture, here are five family gratitude practices you might try. If your family is like mine, they will most likely only agree to participate in one or two of these, so choose one that resonates for you and go for it! (Just tell them it's required before they get to eat their turkey.)
Just like we do with our Highs and Lows at dinner, we can get into the habit of sharing, as a family, one (or more) things we're grateful for. This can be at family dinner, on the car ride to school, at bedtime, or whatever time works best with your family's schedule. Just make it a daily habit and everyone will get used to it. When we've tried this, it seems to eventually warrant some kind of guidelines about what types of things are "shareable." For example, being thankful for a particular video game might be appropriate to share once, but it's best to encourage everyone to share about people and events (rather than things) they are grateful for.
This can be an ongoing family gratitude practice, perhaps kicked off at Thanksgiving and ending on New Year's Eve. For the jar, people jot down things they are grateful for and put the notes inside. On a specified day (end of the year is good!), empty the jar and read the notes so the whole family can reflect on individual and group blessings. A board is a more visual way to show thanks. Simply tack the notes up as you think of things you're thankful for. For my family, whether doing the jar or the board, I think I would have a "minimum daily or weekly requirement" of one note per person, just so we make it a habit and fill up our jar or board.
This is one of my favorite activities and something we've done for the past few years. Each family member and visiting friend has an oversized place card at their dining spot. Throughout the afternoon and evening, people are required to write something they appreciate or are grateful for about each person on the inside of their place card. It can be just a few words or a whole sentence, but each person needs to write on everyone's card. These are really fun keepsakes that provide a nice boost to each family member. This can also be done as a group by passing the cards around until each person has signed each other person's card. When your own card gets back to you, you've completed your warm fuzzies!
This is an activity we did as a family a few years ago. We had a lot of fun creating the journals, but we didn't keep up with writing in them regularly, so I'm going to call us failures at gratitude journals. However, I'm going to dust off my journal and put it on my bedside table so that I can write three things I'm thankful for each day. But I'm not going to force anyone else to write in their journals. I think sharing out loud, at dinner or bedtime (see #1), is better for kids who don't enjoy writing. Perhaps a good alternative would be a family gratitude journal, completed by a parent or designated scribe, when everyone's sharing what they're grateful for. That would be similar to the gratitude jar or gratitude board.
Perhaps the best way to promote gratitude in our children and ourselves is reaching out and serving others who are less fortunate. There are so many opportunities this time of year (and all year long, for that matter) to participate in collection and delivery of food, toys for children, winter coats, and more. There are so many needy people, and reaching out to help others not only makes us more kind and compassionate, but also more appreciative of what we have.
There are so many ways to build up our gratitude muscles, and helping our kids learn to be more grateful people can have a life-long positive impact. Here's to an attitude of gratitude during the holidays!
If you enjoyed this post and want to read more about positive parenting, visit Audrey's blog, Sunshine Parenting, or follow her on Facebook or Pinterest for links to other articles and ideas about camp and parenting. Thank you for reading and have a happy day with your kids! Happy Thanksgiving!


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Rodney Wynn, founder of Wynn with Fitness, holds both a master's of business administration and a bachelor's degree in information systems management from the University of San Francisco. Wynn is also a Certified Specialist in Performance Nutrition. You can reach him at [email protected].
Trying to lure beginners into a health club is not a difficult task, but keeping them there is a different story. We live in an image-conscious society with infomercials and diets that promise to help us lose weight in less than 30 days, so people are typically lured into finding better ways to get in shape than inside our facilities.
Club memberships spike after the New Year but tend to taper off around March. People make New Year's resolutions every year to lose weight and take better care of themselves, but most people don't have a structured program when they start. Beginners generally work out an hour a day, five days a week and typically do the same exercises everyday. Or worse, they do a tremendous amount of cardio without performing any strength training and wonder why they don't see results. After a couple of weeks of doing this, they are completely drained, have sore muscles and see no progress. Beginners tend to spiral out of control at this point by taking a few days off and then go back to the same exact routine. After repeating this pattern for a couple of months, most beginners are ready to throw in the towel.
The other scenario is that some beginners make New Year's resolutions to get in shape and hire personal trainers to help get them started. This is a great idea, but what generally happens is the beginner will use the personal trainer as a crutch and struggle to make progress once they are on their own. Because most people can't afford to hire a full-time personal trainer, they become frustrated with their progress and eventually quit.
Personal trainers need to make sure that beginners are retaining everything that is done during their sessions. This could be accomplished by letting the beginner take more ownership as they meet more with the personal trainer. The personal trainer's job at this point should be to remind clients when they are doing something wrong. If the beginner spends exuberant amounts of money for personal training sessions and feels they are no better off than when they started, this could be to the detriment of the health club. The beginner will be hesitant to hire a personal trainer in the future and may tell their friends and family members not to waste their time.
How do we solve this problem? The best way to retain beginners is to have group workshops that lay out expectations, and to inform clients of proper nutrition and technique. This could be done initially in a group setting in which all new members meet on the second Tuesday of every month for an hour to gather information. Of course, this is not mandatory because you may have new experienced members who feel that they don't need these services but later decide to participate because they are frustrated or not seeing any progress. A group setting brings together the dynamic of different people having different perspectives of diet and fitness.
In addition to this, there could be a small area of equipment set up for demonstrations. Members usually feel more comfortable and confident if they are shown how to properly perform an exercise. Once beginners have proper technique and nutrition, working out becomes just as much a part of their lives as going to work, thus retention levels remain high. We must collectively strive to get beginners to this point so that it is as seamless and painless as possible, or we will all face the revolving door dilemma.


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Big East M5: 02.26.13 EditionPosted by mlemaire on February 26th, 2013
- Criticizing Marquette for its inconsistent play — especially as they sit just a game out of the top spot in the conference following last night's big comeback win over Syracuse in Milwaukee — seems like nitpicking but that doesn't mean the team's schizophrenic play shouldn't be a concern for Golden Eagles' fans either. Buzz Williams' team was supposed to take a step back this season after losing players like Darius Johnson-Odom and Jae Crowder, but Williams has once again proven he is one of the best coaches in the country as his team has easily exceeded expectations and is competing for a league title without a true star. For all of the success that Marquette has had, including its impressive bounceback win over the Orange last night, they still seem to have the occasional lapse and have been shaky on the road. Williams and his club don't have the luxury of winning games when they don't play well because a lot of their success this season has been a result of hard work and grit. I don't think anyone wants to play them in the NCAA Tournament, but if they can't find better consistency and play with continued effort, I don't think anyone would be surprised to see Marquette bounced early from the Dance either.
- On one hand, it doesn't seem fair to go after Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard for his team's abysmal performance this season considering he lost two of his best forwards to injury, but at the same time, there is definitely something to be said for the fact that the Pirates' roster is nearly devoid of true Big East-caliber players. Convincing the best players in the greater NYC area to eschew national powerhouses for a chance to return the Pirates to glory is hardly easy, but the Hall hasn't even had a four-star player commit to Willard until Aquille Carr did this year and almost no one expects Carr to qualify. Also, where are all the kids from New Jersey? Three of the five New Jersey natives on the roster are transfers, and one other, Fuquan Edwin, wasn't even Willard's recruit. Maybe the best talent in the Garden State won't want to play in South Orange, but certainly there are more gettable players from New Jersey who could make a greater impact than the four graduates of the Canarias Basketball Academy are making for the team currently.
- Of course that whole paragraph was written before Villanova made me look stupid by basically standing around while Seton Hall jacked up and made a bunch of three-pointers on their way to pulling off the upset last night at home. It doesn't change the fact that the Pirates are terrible, but I don't know what it means that VU head coach Jay Wright basically acknowledged he expects his team to struggle defending the three-ball followed by his team proving him prophetic. Seton Hall made 13 triples, including the game-winner from Edwin after Wildcats' forward James Bell foolishly tried to split a double-team, and the Wildcats handed back all of the good will they earned by beating Marquette over the weekend. It's hard to know what to make of the Wildcats' resume at that — they have a trio of excellent conference wins, but they also have a number of truly terrible losses. If they can win one of their two remaining games against Pittsburgh and Georgetown and then perform admirably in the Big East Tournament, they can probably sneak in, but games like Monday night certainly don't help.
- Speaking of teams who are making it difficult for themselves, the Cincinnati Bearcats have been turning in a series of stinkers that culminated in whatever that was called Sunday against Notre Dame. As The Dagger astutely points out, plenty of UC's struggles can be blamed on the injury to point guard Cashmere Wright, who was basically acting as half of their offense while they were winning and has been far less explosive and dangerous since coming back. Now they are in danger of missing the NCAA Tournament despite a resume full of solid wins both within and outside of the conference. They have just three conference games left, and considering winning in Louisville next Monday seems nearly impossible at this point, they need to beat Connecticut and South Florida to feel truly comfortable. But frankly, the team isn't going to win if they can't find some offense, and that firepower isn't coming if Wright doesn't magically get healthy soon.
- After its big Saturday road win over Syracuse, there are some willing to argue that Georgetown is good enough to be a No.1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and that the Hoyas have the resume to back it up. But if I am John Thompson III, I am doing everything in my power to make sure my team comes to play Wednesday against UConn. The Huskies have nothing to lose in this game and they will be in front of a raucous Gampel Pavilion crowd ready to greet Georgetown for maybe the last time. The Hoyas should feel really good about where they sit, though. No one thought they were going to be this good this season, especially after they lost Greg Whittington, but now they are clearly one of the best eight teams in the country. Still, if they start feeling too good about themselves, the Huskies are going to punch them in the mouth on Wednesday night.


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Are you thinking about employing a freight method to your business? If you know you need to transport goods across the country and in some cases, even across the world, then you may be thinking about what choices you have. The three most popular freight choices include, air, sea and road.
To help you decide what freight method is right for you, I have listed some handy tips that may help make your decision.
Air Freight
Air freight basically means to ship your goods to another destination, via the air. In recent years, air freight has grown more popular, this is because of the advancements we have seen in this freight method.
A majority of businesses will choose this option because it is known as 'express' shipping, meaning it is one of the fastest ways to get your goods from one point to another. If you need to ship a large amount of goods on a regular basis, air freight can get rather expensive.
These services are usually aimed at small-medium sized businesses that do not use services on a regular basis, but when they do they like to achieve an effective fast result.
Just like another freight option that you will use when crossing borders, you will need to ensure that you document your goods properly; this will allow them to travel through customs.
Sea Freight
Sae freight is the more popular choice when it comes to transporting good across the world; this is because it is much more affordable. Before you sign any contracts with a freight forwarding company, it is important that you understand where they travel to and where they are limited to.
Most freight forwarding companies will on travel on seas that they are familiar with, this means if you want to transport goods to somewhere unusual, you will need to hire a freight company that is specialised in this area.
The price of shipment is usually calculated per cubic metre of goods. It is likely you will also incur extra costs such as taxes and insurance surcharges and local terminal and port charges.
In the UK alone there are 120 ports, meaning it is possible to transport goods from almost anywhere.
Road Freight
Road freight is the most popular choice of freight services, with around 90% of freight travelling on the roads. Road freight services usually work closely with sea freight services; this is so that goods can get to their intended destination on time and in perfect condition.
If you need to transport goods over an extremely long distance, it probably would not be suitable to use road freight services, this is because it is not possible to drive to certain destinations and it can take a much longer time.
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I found the start key
That was easy enough,
'Cause it started without me
Like Blindman's Bluff.
I can't say I was normal
But I was more like the rest,
Now I'm distinctly different
And I have just one request.
Where is the pause button
How do I slow it down?
I wonder if, though dry,
Could I suddenly just drown?
If I don't find that button
I'll just decay away
I think the dye is cast
Colors deepen every day.
Is in a constant state of progress
While others all about me say "tsk, tsk"
And worry about my constant stress.
If only they knew, deep within my soul
It's way beyond a state of stress;
As body parts escape my grasp
And my brain? What? Sorry, I digress.
In the meanwhile, all about me
Life progresses at its will;
Dust is falling, floors grow dirt,
Dogs are shedding and my spouse is ill.
Laundry beckons, its arms and legs askew
Piles growing each time I turn 'round.
In the refrigerator food is molding
And I can't seem to launch off ground.
If I could find that pause button
I could make life stand still
And hide away all by myself
And perform when I wish, at will.
However, I guess if I'm alive
Everything around me is, also,
Which means it will shed and caw
To me, like a glistening black crow.
Or if I'm up for grabs
Life calls out to be lived,
To be kept up, as I pick up the tab.
I tell myself, "It's exercise,"
A commodity I need
As I pick, lift and carry
Life pays me little heed.
Life is very thankless in its needs
Yet I do love clean pets and house,
As I trudge along doing my best
I show love by caring for my pets and spouse.
I guess I'll feel less like a rotting tomato
And more freshly off the vine
Fighting this battle against change
As each day I redefine.
There is no pause button
This I know for sure
Guess I'll stop looking and therefore
Just concur.
This is the "get" I'm handed
Now it's up to me.
Parts may be falling off or in
But I'm still able to yell "Whee."
I'm just out to slow the rot
And do the best I can uphill
By doing SOME of what I ought.
It's good to break away and to be free
If I can't pause life all around me
Then I'll just sit back, watching
And occasionally have tea.
Come join me, give up and float
For life will go on without us,
However important we think we might be
I don't want to be a gloomy Gus.
Some days I'll catch up,
Some days I'll not.
I choose dust and soil
Over regret and rot.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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Loys Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré (XIXe et XXe siecles), Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Paris, vol. 17, 1923, no. 46 (illustrated)
Loys Delteil, Alan Hyman, Jean Cailac, Camille Pissarro: The Etchings and Lithographs, Catalogue Raisonné, 1999, San Franciso: Alan Wolfy Fine Arts, pp. 92-93, no. 46 (illustrated p. 93)
Camille Pissarro was one of the most influential members of the French Impressionist movement and the only artist to participate in all eight Impressionist exhibitions.
Born 10th July 1830 on the island of Saint Thomas in the Danish West Indies, Camille was the son of Frédéric and Rachel Pissarro. At the age of twelve, he went to school in Paris, where he displayed a penchant for drawing. He returned again to Paris in 1855, having convinced his parents to pursue a career as an artist rather than work in the family import/export business. Camille studied at the Académie Suisse alongside Claude Monet, and, during this time, he met Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
In 1869, Camille settled in Louveciennes. The outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 prompted him to move to England, and, with Monet, Camille painted a series of landscapes around Norwood and Crystal Palace, whilst studying English landscape painting in the museums.
Upon returning a year later at the end of the War to Louveciennes, Camille discovered that his studio was looted by Prussian soldiers and around 500 of his works destroyed or disappeared. In fact, only around 180 of the approximately 700 works he would have painted from 1855, the year he began painting in oil until 1870, remained undamaged as it is recorded in the 2006 catalogue raisonné.
Camille settled in Pontoise in the summer of 1871, remaining there and gathering a close circle of friends around him for the next ten years. He reestablished relationships with Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Renoir and Degas, expressing his desire to create an alternative to the Salon, so that their group could display their own unique styles. Camille married Julie Vellay, with whom he would have seven children. Cézanne repeatedly came to stay with them, and, under Camille's influence, he learned to study nature more patiently, even copying one of Camille's landscapes, in order to learn his teacher's technique.
The first Impressionist group exhibition, initiated by Monet in 1874, earned the Impressionists much criticism for their art. While mainly interested in landscape, Camille introduced people – generally peasants going about their rural occupations – and animals into his works, and they often became the focal point of the composition. It was this unsentimental and realistic approach, with the complete absence of any pretence, which seemed to stop his work from finding appreciation in the general public.
One of the few collectors who did show interest in Camille's work was a bank employee called Paul Gauguin, who, after acquiring a small collection of Impressionist works, turned to Camille for advice on becoming a painter himself. For several years, Gauguin closely followed his mentor, and, although their friendship was fraught with disagreement and misunderstandings, Gauguin still wrote shortly before Camille's death in 1903: "He was one of my masters, and I do not deny him".
In the 1880s, Camille moved from Pontoise to nearby Osny, before Eragny, a small village much further from Paris. At a time when he was dissatisfied with his work, in 1885, Camille met both Paul Signac and Georges Seurat. He was fascinated by their efforts to replace the intuitive perceptive approach of the Impressionists with a "Divisionist" method, or scientific study of nature's phenomena based on optical laws. Despite having reached his mid-fifties, Camille did not hesitate to follow the two young innovators. The following year, he passed on this new concept to Vincent Van Gogh, who had just arrived in Paris and was keen to learn of the most recent developments in art. However, after a few years, Camille felt restricted by Seurat's theories and returned to his more spontaneous technique, whilst retaining the lightness and purity of colour acquired during his Divisionist phase.
In the last years of his life, Camille divided his time between Paris, Rouen, Le Havre and Eragny, painting several series of different aspects of these cities, with varying light and weather effects. Many of these paintings are considered amongst his best and make an apt finale to his long and prodigious career.
When Camille Pissarro died in the autumn of 1903, he had finally started to gain public recognition. Today his work can be found in many of the most important museums and collections throughout the world.
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I thought I'd post about an item that recently caught my attention on the USMilitaria Forum. At the link below, you can see the item, and my initial challenge of assertions that it might be a fake, until I was able to review records, and became privy to some additional information that convinced me it was indeed a fake. I know that German items, M1 Carbines and Garands have experienced significant fakery, and I mentioned those genres in my 2010 lecture on repro Thompson items, but I didn't realize that the M1911 series also had such a high degree of fakery. I guess it makes sense, especially recently.
Anyway, here is the link:
What I'd like to do here, is ask if anyone has experience with other M1911 fakes, and could post evidence or commentary in this forum.
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If you drive on I-10 you've likely seen the 30-foot tall "I heart Houston sign" by concrete sculptor David Adickes. It is a can't-miss creation that vividly screams " We love Houston." It has been a pretty good year for Houston. Another huge Free Press Summer Fest, Dwight Howard chose the Rockets, a massive Houston Pride Parade and other events have highlighted a solid 2013 for H-town so far.
Below is what we love to hate, but we want to know what we love. Tell us in the comments what you love about Houston.
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It will be a homecoming for St. Louis native WWE® Superstar Randy Orton® when he attends 2013 Wizard World St. Louis Comic Con on Friday, March 22, at America's Center. Orton will meet fans, sign autographs and pose for photo-ops in a two-hour appearance from 5:30-7:30p.m.
Orton, who earned the distinction of being the youngest World Heavyweight Champion in WWE history, saw his star rise when he won the World Heavyweight Championship at the unprecedented age of 24. Today the WWE's "Apex Predator" is known as one of the very best inside the ring and he is appreciated for his work by fans and peers alike.
The son of WWE Hall of Famer "Cowboy" Bob Orton, nephew of Barry "Barry O" Orton and grandson of "The Big O" Bob Orton, Randy comes from a distinctive bloodline. He is one of the only third-generation Superstars in WWE history, and can be seen every week on Syfy's most watched program, Friday Night SmackDown at 8/7c.
"I have great memories of growing up in St. Louis, so this will be a homecoming of sorts for me. Fans there have supported me for as long as I can remember, and I can't wait to see them at my first Wizard show,"said Orton.
Wizard World CEO John Macaluso adds, "Randy is a decorated champion and one of the elite WWE Superstars of his generation. We are incredibly excited to bring Randy out to see his hometown fans."
Orton joins popular Wizard World celebrity guests Stan Lee, Dean Cain, Billy Dee Williams, James Marsters and Ernie Hudson among the celebrity roster headliners at Wizard World St. Louis Comic Con. They will be joined by a top-drawer collection of well-known artists and writers and a variety of activities, exhibitors and special attractions in the second event on Wizard World's expanded 2013 calendar.
Wizard World Comic Con events bring together thousands of fans of all ages to celebrate the best in pop-fi, pop culture, movies, graphic novels, comics, toys, video gaming, television, sci-fi, gaming, original art, collectibles, contests and more. Wizard World St. Louis Comic Con show hours are Friday, March 22, 3-8 p.m.; Saturday, March 23, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.; and Sunday, March 24, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
For more on the 2013 Wizard World St. Louis Comic Con, visit http://www.wizardworld.com/home-stlouis.html.
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Wizard World produces Comic Cons and pop culture conventions across North America that celebrate graphic novels, comic books, movies, TV shows, gaming, technology, toys and social networking. The events often feature celebrities from movies and TV, artists and writers, and events such as premieres, gaming tournaments, panels, and costume contests.
The full event schedule can be found at www.wizardworld.com.
February 22-24 – Wizard World Portland Comic Con
March 22-24 – Wizard World St. Louis Comic Con
May 30 – June 2 – Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con
August 8-11 – Wizard World Chicago Comic Con
September 20-22 – Wizard World Ohio Comic Con
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As I've mentioned here before, cars are incredible mobile colonies of amazing parts that can be repurposed for any number of uses. One of those uses can be annoying people in an entire neighborhood at once, which I suspect will be the main result from this week's project: the car horn organ.
Yep, we're going to show you how to make an organ. Out of horns. You're welcome (your neighbors, not so much).
Playing car horns outside of cars has probably been happening, informally, ever since there were enough cars to have junkyards. But the idea of an actual instrument from car horns has an inventor, Wendy Mae Chambers. Chambers first built her car horn organ in 1983, and has managed to use it to annoy people all over the globe. She uses a 25-horn organ. Our goals are more modest— we'll just try for a 7-horn organ (at first) and only try to annoy the surrounding block around my house.
Technically, a car horn organ is quite simple. I've drawn the basic diagram up above, but essentially it's a simple circuit for each horn. Each horn has its ground terminal connected to the negative pole of the battery (or, really any 12V power source), and the hot lead from the horn is connected to a switch of some kind, then from the switch on to the positive battery/power source terminal.
I'm planning on using an old synthesizer keyboard for the switches, using one octave of the keyboard. Maybe I can find a one-octave kid's toy keyboard. As long as it's something that someone with some sort of musical skills can play, that's good enough.
So, the plan is simple enough, technically. The real challenge with a car horn organ is sourcing the notes themselves. Even with my modest goal of just seven notes (A-G), this proved tricky. To do this, I enlisted the help of my friend Chris Kallmyer, a great musician who was willing to trek out in August California desert junkyard heat to find the right horns.
We went to a junkyard with the battery from my truck, some tools, a way to mark the horn's notes, and an iPhone (or Android) app that can produce pitches. You can also use a pitch pipe, or year ears if you're one of those freaks who can do that sort of thing.
I'm a musical nincompoop (though I love making noise), so I relied heavily on Chris to identify the pitches of the horns. The good news is horns are usually left on junkyard cars. The bad news is they're often so corroded and rusted that getting them off is a much bigger chore than you'd think. Be patient, and try not to get tetanus.
So far, we found an A, B, two Cs, E, F, and F#. We found some sharps and flats as well, but are focusing just on the basics for now. A seems most common, but I'll get a full report later. Some cars use multiple horns to make a small chord— make sure to try both. Try all kinds of cars. Americans tend to go for deeper and louder, Asian cars seem to like higher pitches, and I think we got the E from a Peugeot. Most euro cars go for funny, flat pitches, it seems. I'll do a post at some point about exactly what all that means.
There may be ways to tune the horns with voltage adjustments or other means. Chris has said he has an idea, which we'll explore in part two when we get this thing put together. After it's done, the goal is to get a real musician to try and play something recognizable. If I can pull it off, I'll have video.
So, stay tuned and hopefully I'll be having neighbors calling in noise complaints on me very soon!


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Environmental consciousness is not a fad. Many people want to take a more natural approach to everything…including their landscapes.
Not long ago, if you were a property owner who wanted to 'go green,' you did so with difficulty. Landscape companies that offered these kinds of services were few and far between. But now they're much easier to find.
Now, new companies are springing up to serve this burgeoning market. They are small entrepreneurial companies, but they're growing in size and profits. Perhaps it's time for you to think about adding some green services to your company's menu.
It should be easy for you to enter this arena; you already know the drill. You know how to plant nursery stock and install sod, how to fertilize and apply weed, disease, and insect controls. What you need to do is find materials to do the job without using chemicals. And that's getting easier by the day.
There was a time when alternative products were difficult—if not impossible—to find. Your choices of organic fertilizers were manure, compost, or a combination of the two. But to get enough nitrogen into the soil, you needed lots and lots of manure and compost, and that caused problems. Put down too much, and the water has difficulty penetrating, and the plants don't get enough nutrients. However, these days, there's an abundance of organic and synthetic fertilizers that work very well.
Tremendous strides have also been made in natural insect control. Many more products are now available, and not just with ladybugs for biological and bacteria control (although they still work). And more organic products are coming out every day to control those other annoying garden pests: weeds.
When Scott Walker opened Pleasant Green Grass in Durham, North Carolina, six years ago, he had the organic landscape market to himself.
The organic approach has been slower to penetrate east of the Rockies, but Walker found that the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area was hungry for it.
"My clients are people who are eating healthy and have an organic lifestyle. Or, they're people who've never used professional lawn care, because they wanted to stay away from chemicals but didn't know there was another option," said Walker. Durham is in the "Research Triangle," where a lot of highly educated people work and live. A green landscape company was a natural fit. Not surprisingly, his company has been successful.
Walker never set out to be a landscape contractor. After getting his degree in parks, recreation and tourism from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, he went to Boulder, Colorado. "I went out there on a snowboarding trip a couple of years earlier and fell in love with it," Walker said.
He got a job with Organo-Lawn in Boulder "just to pay the bills," and found out he loved the work, being outdoors and working with customers. Walker began thinking, "I could do this," and started researching his hometown area of Durham. "I discovered that there weren't any organic landscape companies in that area," he said.
He stayed with Organo-Lawn for four years, learning all he could about the business. When he moved back home to Durham, he intended to open a company that would be like Organo-Lawn, a part-organic, part-chemical hybrid. But the things Walker learned while studying for his pesticide license tipped him over to going all-green. He made the decision to stick to organics, "even though it was harder. Occasionally, we will use a synthetic product, but we'll try every other avenue first."
Walker says he's "always been an environmentalist. I grew up in the woods, with Eno River State Park in my backyard. I've always had a respect for nature," he says. He also had a grandfather who was an avid gardener. "I guess you could say gardening was in my blood."
By contrast, Cassy Rosen "didn't know anything about gardening," when she was growing up, So how does a city girl who grew up in a Santa Monica, California condominium end up with a successful eco-green sustainable landscape business?
Perhaps it was her love for nature, animals, and later, her future husband Kirk Aoyagi, whom she met at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California. The Aoyagis can't quite remember who followed whom into majoring in environmental horticulture with an emphasis in design and build. All Cassy remembers is that she didn't notice Kirk "until he drove by in an old muscle car."
Another influence was David Fross. He's a California "native plant guru," owner of Native Sons Nursery in Arroyo Grande, California. She took a class from him, then went to work in his personal garden and became "hooked" on native plants.
After earning their bachelor's degrees, the couple moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and opened C&K Landscape Design, which became FORM LA, in Tujunga, California. The company has grown from just two employees (the couple themselves), to more than 35.
Although Cassy Aoyagi's young thumb may not have been green, her upbringing in the mid-1980s certainly was. "Both my parents were environmentally conscious. They didn't use any chemicals in the house at all. Everything they did was cutting-edge green—things that are now standard, they were doing for the very first time. So I was totally inspired by that," she said.
Walker's company does use gasoline-powered mowers, partly because he just recently added mowing services and bought used equipment.
Eventually, he'll probably buy diesel mowers, for one very good reason: he built his own biodiesel plant. "I have an arrangement with a friend who owns two restaurants," said Walker. "We trade landscape services for used vegetable oil, and I run all my trucks on it."
He has more competition now than when he started, but says that for some of these companies, calling themselves "green" is a bit of a stretch. "They'll spread some organic fertilizer around and call themselves an organic landscape company," said Walker.
Sometimes customers don't fully understand the meaning of "organic," either. At times, the highly educated Aoyagis find themselves in the role of teachers, even in eco-conscious California. "We had to do a lot of that, especially in the beginning, and we still do. But it's a fine line. You don't want to come across as condescending or preachy. Clients don't want to hear a lecture; that's not why they called you," she stresses. Most of Walker's clients were pre-sold on the organic idea, but some "are just sort of on the organic bandwagon. Their expectations are still that we'll come in and wipe all the weeds out with one application. We have to remind them why they wanted organic in the first place," says Walker.
"In the beginning, it was a lot harder," says Aoyagi. "People would call and ask us to put in a traditional garden, and we would try to get their business some other way. Now people call us because we offer this (organic) service."
The Aoyagis find their greatest challenge lies in "getting clients to understand how deep the (eco-green) approach goes. It extends well beyond their property lines. I don't think people realize that what they're doing on their home sites can affect us globally. We humans think very short-term and day-to-day, and just don't realize how so many of the things we do every day have effects that stretch well beyond ourselves," said Aoyagi.
Would the Aoyagis ever consider applying a pesticide as a last resort? The short answer is no. "The way it works around here, if a client was begging us to use it, they would have to apply it themselves. But before we'd ever go there, we would be looking for as many alternatives as possible."
And there are more organic alter- natives available now to the green (or partially green) landscape contractor than ever before. Walker recently got to test one, a new chemical-free method of controlling weeds. It imitates what nature occasionally does—freezes them. The Frostbite Weed Control System from Arctic, Inc., Clemmons, North Carolina, was the brainstorm of company founder and COO Rob Howerton.
Howerton, a landscape contractor in Clemmons (he's owned Howerton Landscaping for 14 years), got the idea one early spring day while cleaning his computer keyboard with a CO2 spray. A late frost had just killed off some newly emerged weeds, and Howerton thought, "Wouldn't it be nice if this happened every year?"
That's when he had a 'light bulb' moment. The two ideas merged in his head. He went out to the yard with the keyboard cleaner and sprayed some weeds. When he checked back two days later, the weeds had died, and Howerton knew he was on to something.
Should you decide to "go green," there may be help available. Walker got some from Anka Funds, a venture capital firm with a strong environmental ethic that looks for small green companies to help, both with business advice and financially. They contacted him, liked what they saw, and they became partners.
Whether you go all the way down the eco-green sustainable road or just give it a trial run is your decision, of course. Check out your area and see if the market is ripe for these services. You won't have to change your entire way of doing things, just some of them. The Earth, and your business, may benefit.


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Professor Dietrich Andresen
Medical Director of the Department for Internal Medicine Cardiology/Conservative Intensive Care at Vivantes Hospital Am Urban/im Friedrichshain, Berlin
High blood pressure isn't painful as such, but it does increase the risk of strokes and serious cardiovascular diseases. In Germany, it is a problem for around half of all people aged over 60, and occurs in younger people as well. We asked Professor Dietrich Andresen, Senior Cardiology Consultant at the Vivantes Hospital am Urban in Berlin, to tell us more about this subject.
The subject of high blood pressure is nothing new, of course. But what makes it so dangerous?
Professor Andresen: High blood pressure is a silent and insidious killer. If it didn't exist, we humans would live much longer and healthier lives. The high blood pressure itself is not a serious illness at all. We actually feel fit and able-bodied, we need little sleep and are easily able to work. But over the course of the years, high blood pressure results in damage to our cardiovascular system. This can result in complications such as heart attacks, strokes and diseases of the eyes and kidneys.
What can push up blood pressure?
Professor Andresen: We know for one thing that genetic determination – i.e. hereditary predisposition – is a factor. It's not uncommon for the father or mother of a patient to have suffered a heart attack or stroke. But an unhealthy lifestyle also plays its part. Obesity, high salt intake, lack of exercise and sustained psychological and emotional stress are all risk factors that, together, push up blood pressure, which then leads to the organ damage in later life.
But salt is found in lots of different foods. How is it possible to curb our salt intake?
Professor Andresen: You'll go a long way to achieving this if you don't add any salt to your meal after cooking – get that salt shaker off the table!
What role does stress play?
Professor Andresen: Both mental and physical strain cause blood pressure to increase. This is a very normal adaptive process. Your blood pressure will begin to normalise again as soon as you calm down. If you are continually under stress, however, you may develop permanently raised blood pressure over time.
How then does high blood pressure affect our cardiovascular system and organs?
Professor Andresen: The walls of our arteries are actually very soft, very elastic; they give way. Raised blood pressure causes them to harden and stiffen. This is a process that unfolds over ten, twenty, thirty years. 50 per cent of all patients aged over 60 have problems related to arterial stiffness. Permanently high pressure causes the vascular walls to become porous, and deposits can form, e.g. of cholesterol or calcifications.
How do these deposits get there in the first place?
Professor Andresen: The high pressure damages the delicate inner lining of the arteries, which gradually begins to crack. It's a bit like the inner tube of a tyre: if you inflate this from two bar to four bar, the high pressure will cause the tube to become porous and it could tear. The process is the same for your arteries.
Why are these tears so dangerous?
Professor Andresen: Even if the tears are only miniscule, the body detects that something is bleeding. The thrombocytes (blood platelets) then arrive on the scene and try to staunch the bleeding. They do this by closing the artery completely – they clog it up. This clogging is known as an infarction or a heart attack. It's why we call a clogged coronary artery a cardiac infarction; a clogged blood vessel in the brain is known as a cerebral infarction or stroke. Both events are the catastrophic consequence of a high blood pressure condition that started out so harmlessly.
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Fancy a holiday in Italy? (Who doesn't?) Perhaps you would like to stay at a Belle Epoque villa in a relaxed little town, away from the more touristy spots. Sure, you say. Let's go one step further, and make it the Palazzo Magherita, family home and hotel of Mr Francis Ford Coppola. Yes, you read that right. Not only does Mr Coppola direct movies, he also owns several hotels, including this bellisima villa.
The Palazzo Margherita is located in the town of Bernalda, in southern Italy. The Coppola family loves to spend time there. Sofia Coppola even has her own suite, which she helped to design. The entire hotel was designed by the legendary Jacques Grange, and features a soft pastel palette, summery furnishings, and delicately painted Tunisian-style murals, not to mention gorgeous floor tiles and lovely chandeliers.
Imagine sipping a Limonata over lunch in the walled courtyard garden, having a swim in the palazzo's pool, then taking a leisurely stroll through the town's rustic streets. Later, you would enjoy dinner back at the hotel, and catch a movie in the grand salon, before wrapping up the evening with a glass of wine at the Family Bar, Sofia's favourite place to enjoy a nightcap. Finally, you will sink into bed in your very comfortable and beautifully-designed suite.
Sounds like a fabulous getaway to me. Ciao!
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South Korea's Next Cultural Wave Could Be Smoothies
A South Korean cultural wave is sweeping the world, with interest surging in areas ranging from the country's pop music to cosmetics to television dramas. Now, smoothies could be next.
At least that is what Standard Chartered's private-equity unit is banking on with a $45.5 million joint investment with Korea's National Pension Service for a 48% stake in Smoothies Korea.
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Remembering When
Developed by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Remembering When™ is a fire and fall prevention program designed for older adults to facilitate independent living. Safety messages are presented with a nostalgic theme through fun and interactive discussion, trivia, quizzes and colorful brochures.
CDC statistics show that older adults have a significantly higher risk of death or injury from fires or falls than the general population. The North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center Outreach staff work with Fire, Life and Safety Educators across the state to disseminate Remembering When™ training to the senior citizens of North Carolina. The objective is to prevent injuries among these older adults and help them live safely at home for as long as possible.
For further information about Remembering When™, visit the NFPA web site.


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Letter, H. Hill to Dear Brother
Author: Hill, Hiram
Date: May 13, 1855
After arriving in Kansas City by steamboat, Hiram Hill wrote to his brother. En route, four men had died of cholera while others continued to drink and play cards nearby. Disease fatalities were common, Hill reported. He speculated that the river water, which passengers drank, was contaminated with disease from the rich prairie soil. Hill described life at the Winedot [sic] Indian Reservation (beginning at the bottom of page 2) where he met the "prinsable chiefe" and saw the governor's sister. Hill related news concerning Mr. Putnam, Mr. Tomas, Mr. Gague, Mr. Jay, Mr. Partridge, Mr. Whitman, Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Fuller and others. He was skeptical that these men would permanently settle in Kansas Territory. Hill also described Kansas City, which he thought would improve under "yankee," rather than "slave holder," management. (Hill's final destination was Lawrence, where he acquired town lots through quit claims not included in this online project.)
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Hiram Hill Collection, #382, Box 1, Folder 4
Item Number: 101867 Number of images: 6
Keywords: American Indians (see also Native Americans); Burial; Diseases; Emigration and immigration; Hill, Hiram; Kansas City, Kansas Territory; Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company; Steamboats; Transportation; Travel; Weather; Wyandot Indians
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August 16th, 2012
Rebecca Norris Webb's "My Dakota"
Recently profiled by Time's LightBox and New Yorker's PhotoBooth, Rebecca Norris Webb's My Dakota, on view at the Dahl Arts Center in South Dakota (through October 13, 2012), is an intensely personal engagement with the landscape, a photographic response to the sudden, unexpected death of her brother. Following the family tragedy, the photographer's "explorations shifted from the geography of the West to the interior landscape of grief," writes Suzanne Shaheen.
For the duration of the exhibition, Webb will be opening up and soliciting photographic responses to her own inward-looking work from an online photography community through the Our Dakota open flickr group. Group members will be offered three response assignments over the course of the next few months, created by Webb and her husband and creative partner, Magnum Photojournalist Alex Webb. The first two assignments are now live. The final assignment will be posted on September 1.
A selection of photographs from the Flickr group curated by the Webbs and their assistant, photographer Trent Davis Bailey, will be shown at the South Dakota Festival of Books in Sioux Falls and at the Dahl Arts Center before the Webbs' joint slide talk on Friday, October 5, 2012.
In addition to being a photographer, Rebecca Norris Webb is also a poet and educator. She and her husband have been conducting popular photography workshops for some time now, including one at held at Aperture Gallery in late March of this year, which sold out. The two are offering another weekend workshop called "Find Your Vision" in October immediately following the joint slide talk, which is still open for registration.
Select images from My Dakota were also exhibited at the group show Weather (through August 17, 2012) at Ricco Maresca Gallery in New York.
Read interviews with Rebecca Norris Webb and Alex Webb from Visura Magazine, The Tripod Blog and The Telegraph.
View Alex Webb's installation shots of Rebecca's exhibition in South Dakota on their blog.
My Dakota
Exhibition on view:
June 1 – October 13, 2012
"Find Your Vision" Public Slide Talk With Alex and Rebecca Norris Webb
Friday, October 5, 2012 at 7:00-9:00 pm
Dahl Arts Center
713 7th Street
Rapid City, SD
(605) 394-4101
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